In recent years, we have learned the exact structure of waste product that build up in Alzheimer’s disease. The breakdown of the brain’s automatic clearance system may be the cause of neurodegenerative (nerve degeneration) disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease, in addition to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (brain damage after head trauma). […]
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It is not necessary to watch these videos to be able to apply the techniques, but it will certainly help you understand them…and perhaps give you a bit more motivation. At the HEART of CBT is recognizing that …“It’s not the EVENT which causes our Emotions or Body Physiology changes; it is how we INTERPRET
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The ability to not be distracted is also the ability to not be irritated. Summary of Attention Control Techniques There are three important points to keep in mind when practicing attention control exercises: Concept 1: ID your Awareness Stage of Tinnitus. (R. Hallam’s Tinnitus book, p 32) Concept 2: ID sensations or experiences you “attend
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Most people think of emotional stress, or even anxiety or depression, as being some event that is largely an out-of-control reaction that has the potential to consume their thoughts if it grows large enough. Well, as with any spark, a fire, even a large, devastating fire, is possible, the environment and the way it is
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This course is designed to help you find a balance of safety and effort. Of course, what is right for one person is wrong for another, when it comes to workouts. And what one enjoys is miserable for another. Try to find an enjoyable way to workout, but however you look at it, you must
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You recall that the loudness or one’s tinnitus is not directly related to the irritation one perceives with their tinnitus. Certainly, we want the sound to go away, but let’s not wait for that moment to regain peace and control in our mind. The Challenge Your Thoughts technique is old and simple, like a monk,
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Now we have a Progressive Muscle Relaxation, specifically for Tinnitus. Additionally, we teach you how to move to QUICKER versions of the muscle relaxation techniques. You can set this to repeat on an audio player to put you to sleep as you progressively relax each muscle in your body — scanning for tension and releasing it, one muscle
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This is the download for the pdf of worksheets and notes that go along with the audios below. This document covers all the topics listed above: Stress Reduction Handbook This document covers worldview, explaining how a worldview from a Christian perspective can reduce stress, but is also extraordinarily logical. Stress Reduction –Worldview And here is
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Here are some quick links to the individual elements of the Healthy Brain Lifestyle, for convenient use later. The Healthy Brain Lifestyle elements were each designed as individual programs, but we didn’t learn this in school. As I treated patients over the years (since before 1995), I saw people come to me to help them
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